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-# Documentation for TAP
+# Apache SensSoft TAP
 
-## Background
+Apache TAP is part of the SensSoft software stack. It's a React based app with a Django backend that allows you to access your applications' usage data via custom D3 visualizations.
 
-## Who is this package for?
 
-## Getting Going...
 
-## Now that TAP is running...
+## Configure TAP
 
-----
-## For more information
-TAP was built using Django 1.9.  For more advanced developer information or instructions on how to setup your own system,  consult the documentation for Django [here](https://www.djangoproject.com).  
+To run TAP via Docker, you'll have to include a secret.py file like the one below:
+
+```python
+"""
+Secret Django settings for tap project.
+"""
+
+# SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!
+MY_SECRET_KEY = '<yoursecretkey>'
+MY_DB_NAME = 'tapdb'
+MY_DB_USER = 'tapuser'
+MY_DB_PASSWORD = '<dbpassword>'
+MY_DB_HOST = 'db'
+
+MY_EMAIL_PASSWORD =''
+ADMIN_EMAILS = ()
+
+```
+
+## Install and Run TAP on Docker Compose
+
+1. From the project directory, build the TAP and its dependencies docker images
+
+```
+$ docker-compose build
+```
+
+2. Start up TAP and related images
+
+```
+$ docker-compose up
+```
+
+3. Visit TAP on localhost:8000
+
+4. To stop services, shut down
+
+```
+$ docker-compose down
+```
+
+
+
+
+## Contributing
+
+Contributions are welcome!  Simply submit an issue report for problems you encounter or a pull request for your feature or bug fix.  The core team will review it and work with you to incorporate.
+
+## License
+
+Copyright 2016 The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.
+
+TAP is released under the Apache v2.0 License.  See the LICENSE file for more information.  
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